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Toward the end of Cobb, the hero suddenly starts coughing up blood. Death, which until now has been a second baseman to be charged, spiked and upended, is not going to drop the ball this time. It is a new experience for Ty Cobb. He has never encountered anything his psychopathic aggressiveness couldn't overwhelm. Tommy Lee Jones's utterly incautious performance -- he's pure attack dog -- permits his character a moment of naked panic. Then he looks in the mirror and accepts his fate, and calmly calls the hospital...
...Shelton's new film with The Pride of the Yankees. It is not really a baseball movie or a biopic at all. It is a meditation on the nature of genius, which is not a word we usually apply to ballplayers, even great ones. But that's how Ty Cobb saw himself, and that's how he wanted to be remembered. To that end, in the last year of his life, he hired a sportswriter named Al Stump to help him write his autobiography. Cobb's orders were to ignore anything in his life that did not directly relate...
Many won't be able to. They can justify their fastidiousness by observing that this is a messy movie, sometimes repetitive, sometimes too compressed and allusive. But that's like saying Ty Cobb was not a very good sport -- irrelevant in comparison to the horrific fascination of his story...
Tommy Lee Jones plays the horrifically fascinating Ty Cobb...
...apotheosis of baseball reaches its apotheosis in Baseball. As he did so brilliantly in The Civil War and half a dozen other documentaries on American history (Brooklyn Bridge, Huey Long), Burns mixes archival footage with commentary from assorted experts -- sportswriters, ex-players and other students of the game. Ty Cobb once called baseball "something like a war"; these box-seat philosophers, shot in contemplative, dreamy-eyed closeup, treat it as something like a religion. "Baseball is a beautiful thing," says sportscaster Bob Costas. "The way the field fans out. The choreography of the sport. The pace and rhythm...